A survey by research company PCP of more than 550 young people aged 11 to 18 found better weather and lower cost of living were the main reasons young people want to move abroad.
Spain and Italy topped the list of the most desirable places to live and work in Europe.
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Ninety per cent of young people will live abroad
Nearly nine in ten young people will live and work abroad in the coming years despite more than half having no language skills, new research has found.
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And 71 per cent of the young people surveyed said they wished they spoke a foreign language.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is now urging young people to consider learning a foreign language.
Schools minister Jim Knight said: "This research is yet more proof that we need to equip today's youth with the tools to succeed in the international marketplace, which means encouraging all young people to improve their language skills.
"Having more young people able to speak a second language is vital to the future success of the UK economy."
The DCSF has launched a marketing campaign called Try Life in Another Language to encourage young people to study foreign languages.
Posted Comments
mas - 30 August 2008
I saw this reported in a national newspaper - how many more dumb pointless surveys will there be like this?!
550 young people aged 11-18 were interviewed - isn't that the same as just going into one secondary school and asking them who fancies living abroad in the future?! How much weight do you place on the dreams of an 11 year old to one day live abroad - years before they've even begin to properly consider what they might do in adult life?
But somehow this drivel makes national headlines - please stop it you just encourage more time and money to be wasted on other pointless "research" - what next a national youth clubs charity reporting findings that youth clubs are good?!........
John Broadwater - 28 August 2008
Maybe I'm missing the point but how is having more young people able to speak a second language vital to the success of the UK economy when 90% of them want to live and work abroad? Because they will earn and spend abroad too.
Even assuming 90% is an overestimate, I would think that it would be mostly the more intelligent and educated young people who would be the most willing and able to move abroad - the sort of people we can least afford to lose.
If the survey came up with the result that most of our young people want to commit to this country, then I can see Jim Knight's point. Learning languages in this case would simply mean we were more able to receive foreign visitors better - such as will be needed when the Olympics comes to town.
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